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Been under the weather for four days already. Berocca usually does the trick and I feel normal after three days but since Nanay has coughs and Angel has acute tonsillitis, I coupled Berocca with Bioflu.

I still feel a little heavy, I’m just thankful I don’t have fever and the almost-there cold and cough I felt last Saturday have already vanished.

I hate getting sick. Being sick means taking rest. Resting means sleeping, and sleeping hurts my site’s SEO. And no, not this blog cuz it hasn’t really been getting a lot of traffic.

I guess it’s because I haven’t been focusing here. Or the blog name’s so lame. Profound Bliss. But I like it lame, anyway.

I first left that trekking pole inside the Nasugbu-bound bus, forgetting to pick it up when I got off at Evercrest. It was leaning on the window, and good thing the tricycle driver, who was waiting for passengers to take to the jump-off of Mt. Batulao, spotted me on that window. When he saw me out of the bus, he looked at the window again and shouted that I left my pole.

He shouted so loud and repeatedly that I became the center of attention. The bus was already starting to take off but halted upon hearing the shouts, with the driver perhaps thinking that he hit someone or something. LoL!

So I got back inside the bus to get the trekking pole and to thank the tricycle driver for what he did, I hired him to take me to the jump-off and paid him extra.

But the trekking pole was really meant to be lost. On my way down the mountain, I stopped beside a fallen tree to get my poncho because it started drizzling. I leaned the pole beside the tree to put on the poncho, and perhaps because I was so in a hurry to get back to the jump-off before the rain poured hard, I forgot all about the trekking pole.

I only noticed something was missing when I was already near Evercrest and already so far down to go back. If I did go back, it would already be dark by the time I reached that fallen tree, and I didn’t have my headlamp with me. Besides, I passed by a lot of hikers on their way up that time and I was kinda sure the pole wouldn’t be there anymore when I get back.

Up until now, I haven’t told my climb buddy K (who didn’t climb with me that time) that I lost the trekking pole. Would he be mad? He gave it to me as a gift.

When you live in flood-prone areas, you have no choice but to wade in flood waters at one point or another during calamities like this intense Southwest Monsoon that we are experiencing now. That said, people who are exposed to flood waters are in danger of leptospirosis.

Leptospirosis comes from the urine of rats that easily mixes with flood water and get in human body through wounds or through our mouths (accidents like that happen).

And what to do after wading or accidentally ingesting flood waters? Check out the photo above or read below.

Leptospirosis Post Exposure Prophylaxis:

- Take two (2) Doxycycline 100 mg capsules immediately.

- If you have open wounds and waded in flood water, or accidentally ingested flood water, extend treatment by taking two (2) Doxycycline 100 mg capsules once a day, for 3-5 days.

It’s been raining non-stop in Luzon, particularly in Metro Manila and its nearby provinces. Quezon City is submerged in flood waters, as well as Valenzuela, Bulacan, and even the cities of Parañaque and Las Piñas.

This is Ondoy part 2, if you would ask me. I’m just a little luckier here in our side of Taguig that we are not touched by flood ever.

Classes have been suspended since Monday in most areas and for those curious which areas have No Classes for tomorrow, August 8 (Wednesday), here’s my list via announcements made by LGUs on Twitter and Facebook. And I am updating this post as new info becomes available.

Metro Manila:

Caloocan City – all levels (public and private schools)

Las Piñas City – all levels (public and private schools)

Makati City – all levels (public and private schools)

Malabon – all levels (public and private schools)

Mandaluyong City – all levels (public and private schools)

Manila City – all levels (public and private schools)

Marikina City– all levels (public and private schools)

Muntinlupa City – all levels (public and private schools)

Navotas – all levels (public and private schools)

Parañaque City – all levels (public and private schools)

Pasay City – all levels (public and private schools)

Pasig City – all levels (public and private schools)

Pateros – all levels (public and private schools)

Quezon City – all levels (public and private schools)

San Juan City – all levels (public and private schools)

Taguig City – all levels (public and private schools)

Valenzuela – all levels (public and private schools)

Provinces:

Angeles, Pampanga

Antipolo City – all levels (public and private schools)

Bataan – all levels (public and private schools)

Batangas (province-wide) – all levels (public and private schools)

Binangonan, Rizal – preschool to high school (public and private schools)

Bulacan – all levels (public and private schools)

Cabanatuan – all levels (public and private schools)

Cainta, Rizal – all levels (public and private schools)

Cavite (province-wide) – all levels (public and private schools)

Laguna (province-wide) – all levels (public and private schools)

Montalban, Rizal – all levels (public and private schools)

Nueva Ecija – preschool to high school

Olongapo City

Pampanga – all levels (public and private schools)

Pangasinan – all levels (public and private schools)

Paombong, Bulacan

Rizal – preschool to high school

Rodriguez, Rizal – all levels (public and private schools)

San Jose del Monte, Bulacan – all levels (public and private schools)

San Mateo, Rizal – all levels (public and private)

Tarlac – preschool to high school (public and private schools)

Taytay, Rizal – all levels (public and private schools)

Schools:

Adamson University

Arellano University

Ateneo De Manila University

Ateneo Law School

Centro Escolar University (all campuses)

Chinese General Hospital Colleges

Colegio de San Juan de Letran

Colegio de Sta. Cecilia, Valenzuela (including office work)

De La Salle University

Don Bosco (Mandaluyong)

Far Eastern University (all campuses)

Fatima University

Jose Rizal University

Malayan Colleges, Laguna

Manila Tytana University

National College of Science & Technology, Cavite (including office work)

Polytechnic University of the Philippines (Sta. Mesa, Manila; San Juan; Taguig campuses)